There is something here. Couple years ago I found a story about a town where the Islamic Academy wanted to move in. They gave the town badly needed funding for some water development that was terribly needed. To the tune of several million dollars as I recall. Then they donated a large sum to the local PTA. And they got their votes for what they needed, it was something about expanding the town borders, I think.
I believe it was Saudi money. A good investigator might be worth the townspeople's money.
I wonder if they hired an attorney....we helped our neighbors with one last year to stop the placement of a level 3 sex offender home only 8 miles from us. (We won.)
I hope they don't give up fighting it.
A report yesterday afternoon, which correctly anticipated the vote of the council, said that the appeal is already in the works.
Not that it will make any difference IMO.
Prairie